Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-06

An attempt was made recently to o.
stroy by explosives one of the churches OF
LYONS. France. A bombshen was places
under the church porch and fuse lighted
A policeman passing by noticed the burning
fuse and put out the fire before it could
reach the bomb.
THE general election for the province of
Ontario took place on the 18th, resulting il,
the return to power of the Liberal party by
increased majorities. With seven constitu-
encies to hear from, four OF which would
probably return Liberal members. the vote
stood: Liberals, IS; Conservatives, 90;
Labor, l. In the last House the Liberals
hadsa majority of IL.
GENERAL BoULANGER, French Minister of
War, has consented to o reduction in the
supplementary credit asked forthe military
department OF the government for the finan-
ciel year from A., 600 0O0f., the amount re-
quested, to 10, COZ, 000f.
SIR JOHN PORE HENNEssY, Governor OF
Mauritius, has been suspended because he
had occasioned internal discussions in the
island.
.iTHE two-masted steamer Sir John burned
ct St. John, n. B. the other night Search
ing parties found the crew of twenty men
huddled together in the NOW On the rocks
at Black Point Their clothes were frozen
to their bodies and. they were suffering
terribly. Five were so seriously burned,
including Captain Purdy, that they could
not live. John Sinclair, the steward, was
drowned while swimming ashore
THREE of the crew of the American bark
Lillian, which arrived at Greenock, Eng
land, recently, were lost in Q gale Decem-
Der TO-
A DUEL-was fought in the City Of Mexico
recently between Prince Augustin Iturbide
and Senior Carcedo, both OF whom are mem
bers of the Jockey Club. The weapons used
were swords. The Prince wounded his
antagonist in the shoulder, but not danger
ously.
WHOLESALE expulsion of Jews in Poland
has been ordered because they are unable
TO pay for certificates as merchants of the
first class.
THE French officer Letellier, arrested ct
Carlsruhe, Germany, on suspicion, has bean
liberated.
IT il announced that the death has oc-
Cured in her matched cottage, near Ayr,
Scotland, of Isabella Burns, the niece of
the poet and his last near relative. She
had just completed her eightieth year. For
many years she has been well known to
literary persons of all countries, and had
every summer received visitors from the
admirers of her uncle.
ACCORDING to advices from Natal there
is an alarming increase in that colony of
outrages upon European women by natives.
In many instances the guardians of jails
have experienced great difficulty in pre-
venting the lynching of the criminals, and
there is general popular demand for pub
lie fogging, branding and hanging of the
offenders.
RoUMANIA will hold aloof from the threat
ened European war.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the English Radi-
cal-Unionist, is reported in favor of d coali-
ton ministry.
REPORTS of increased Russian ornaments
are continually being received in Vienna
from various sourSes. The latest intelli-
gence of this kind to the effect that 100000
Russian troops have been ordered TO mass
in kleff and that the occupants of 10000 |
houses have received the Official potifca-
ton that the soldiers will soon be billeted
with them.
THE North German Gazette considers Gen
eral Boulanger's consent to a reduction OF
the supplementary credit for the French
military department for the present finan-
ciel year as intended to strengthen the po-
sitlon Of the opponents of an increase of the
German army.
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL has made applica-
ton to have his recent suit for divorce re-
opened on the old testimony.
AT the Sligo Qreland) assizes all the
Catholic jurors in the panel were rejected
for the trial of the moonhghters.
LORD IDDEsLEIGH, the British Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, received the Bulgarian dele-
cation unofficially on the 29th.
IT is reported that Munich, Germany, 10
about to be proclaimed in state OF siege.
NEAR Toronto is being constructed the
first steel steamer ever built in Canada.
The engines, however, are being made in
Scotland.